“The only sovereign we could allow to rule us is reason.”
“The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.”
“God either rules as sovereign in interpretation over *all* areas of life or none.”
“We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I think, is a different thing entirely, difficult for anyone but the historians and the gods to judge.”
“The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule.”